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NGETTEXT(3)                           Library Functions Manual                           NGETTEXT(3)



NAME
       ngettext, dngettext, dcngettext - translate message and choose plural form

SYNOPSIS
       #include <libintl.h>

       char * ngettext (const char * msgid, const char * msgid_plural,
                        unsigned long int n);
       char * dngettext (const char * domainname,
                         const char * msgid, const char * msgid_plural,
                         unsigned long int n);
       char * dcngettext (const char * domainname,
                          const char * msgid, const char * msgid_plural,
                          unsigned long int n, int category);

DESCRIPTION
       The  ngettext, dngettext and dcngettext functions attempt to translate a text string into the
       user's native language, by looking up the appropriate plural form of  the  translation  in  a
       message catalog.

       Plural  forms  are  grammatical  variants  depending on the a number. Some languages have two
       forms, called singular and plural. Other languages have three forms,  called  singular,  dual
       and plural. There are also languages with four forms.

       The  ngettext,  dngettext and dcngettext functions work like the gettext, dgettext and dcget‐‐
       text functions, respectively.  Additionally, they choose the appropriate plural  form,  which
       depends  on  the  number  n and the language of the message catalog where the translation was
       found.

       In the "C" locale, or if none of the used catalogs contain a translation for msgid, the nget‐‐
       text, dngettext and dcngettext functions return msgid if n == 1, or msgid_plural if n != 1.

RETURN VALUE
       If  a  translation was found in one of the specified catalogs, the appropriate plural form is
       converted to the locale's codeset and returned. The resulting string is statically  allocated
       and  must not be modified or freed. Otherwise msgid or msgid_plural is returned, as described
       above.

ERRORS
       errno is not modified.

BUGS
       The return type ought to be const char *, but is char * to avoid warnings in C code predating
       ANSI C.

SEE ALSO
       gettext(3), dgettext(3), dcgettext(3)



GNU gettext 0.20.1.124-32cf                   May 2001                                   NGETTEXT(3)